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velvetyhelpers) wrote2012-01-04 04:22 pm
velvetyhelpers) wrote2012-01-04 04:22 pm
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Zia | Bastion | not reserved
Nickname: Sen
Age: 27
Personal LJ/DW:
Method of Contact:
Characters Played: n/a
Character Info:
Name: Zia
Age: School aged, about 18
Canon: Bastion
Pull Point: After Zulf reads her father's journal
Background Info:
History: Zia Zia's Stockpot/backstory in a Who Knows Where
Personality: As the only dialogue in Bastion is a narration by Rucks, and there are no words spoken by the characters themselves, it can be a little difficult to pin down exact personalities. But actions say much.
Zia is almost distressingly kind. The first time you meet her in Prosper Bluff, she's singing to herself with her guitar, almost as if fighting the monsters around her didn't occur to her, or that she knew she couldn't. This is the reason why the Kid finds her, as her song leads him to her campsite. While in the Bastion, she will hatch the eggs the Kid finds. It doesn't matter to her that what comes out are an anklegater and pecker. She will still hatch them for you.
She's curious. The biggest example of this is when she goes with Zulf after he reads her father's journal. She just has to know if what's written there is true. If what her father did was actually set off the events for the Calamity. Given what the Ura could have done to her if they found out her father had worked on the project and that Zia seems not to be a fighter… that could have ended poorly.
She's also very trusting, very much to a fault. She instantly trusts the Kid when he finds her and takes her back to the Bastion, both times he finds her. She trusts Zulf when she willingly goes with him to see for herself if what was written in her father's journal was true. And, in her past as her Who Knows Where showed, she trusted and loved a young Caelondian man only for the man to lie to the authorities about her selling Caelondian secrets to the Ura.
All in all, Zia is your very kind, very sweet, very trusting young girl. Not much of a fighter, but definitely good for support, good food, and a song.
Game Specific:
Arcana: Star
Justification: She's a shining ray of light in the Bastion! To be serious, the Star has lot of her traits. She's very calm, trusting, and inspired. She does get along better with music than history books, after all. And as Bastion plays on, she discovers more about her father, the Ura, and the Calamity.
Samples:
First Person Sample: [The video flips on again, this time showing little Zia. She offers the community a small smile as she waves.]
Hi. Um, I have another question to ask. If you're a music player, well, where do you get your supplies? [Her fingers pick up a broken string as he smile fell to rueful] I kind of need to restring my guitar. Oh, but it's okay! If you help me I'll feed you. It's not like you're doing it for nothing.
Third Person Sample: While her fingers worked on chopping and her breath hummed her favorite song softly, her mind raced. The Dark Hour, they called it. That hour of unnatural color and monsters. Of creatures coming forth to defend the inhabitants of the city. What caused this? The world was nothing like what happened to Caelondia, but… what her father did, could it have reached this far? Could this be what happened here, instead of people turning to ash? Her fingers shook slightly as her song faltered.
No, she couldn't let herself think of those days. Not of what happened. The back of her hand came to her eyes in case any of those tears fell. But she had become proficient in not letting anyone see her cry, not after that bullying. She'd be okay. Besides, she had food to make, and a Kid to invite over. What happened during the Dark Hour- it wouldn't have anything to do with what happened to Caelondia. It shouldn't, right?
Pending
Pending.
While the app is good, we feel that it needs a bit more length in the personality section before we can accept it. Possibly another paragraph or two.
Re: Pending
In the Restoration ending, she's seen sitting alone with her guitar. That, along with the knowledge that she was bullied in school and thought she only had the young Caelondian man as a friend, speaks of shyness and loneliness. Rucks, Zulf, and the Kid were perhaps her first real friends, and in a place such as Prospero with many people... shy little Zia will be shy.
Accepted
ACCEPTED.
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